Lennox Seminar # 3 – Robert Hass

Don’t miss this one.

Wednesday, March 25, 8pm
Ruth Taylor Recital Hall (located in the Dicke Art Building @ Trinity University)
Free parking in the Alamo Stadium lot.

Here’s one of my favorites from his recent, “Time and Materials”

A Supple Wreath of Myrtle
by Robert Hass

Poor Nietzsche in Turin, eating sausage his mother
Mails to him from Basel. A rented room,
A small square window framing August clouds
Above the mountain. Brooding on the form
Of things: the dangling spur
Of an Alpine columbine, winter-tortured trunks
Of cedar in the summer sun, the warp in the aspen’s trunk
Where it torqued up through the snowpack.

“Every where the wasteland grows; woe
To him whose wasteland is within.”

Dying of syphilis. Trimming a luxuriant mustache.
In love with the opera of Bizet.